Intermediality, Multimodality and Learning (IMS Literacy)
IMS Literacy, a research cluster within Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), explores how intermedia and multimodal knowledge can be developed into creative, inclusive and flexible teaching methods.
Understanding mix of modes and media
- supports the teaching of language and literature in an increasingly audiovisual culture,
- provides a flexible media literacy that helps to navigate in the contemporary online media landscape,
- offers skills for an innovative and varied teaching methods to increase diversity and inclusion
IMS Literacy builds an international network on intermedial literacy. It develops workshops and micro-credential courses for teachers on using the diversity of modes and media in productive ways.
Recent events have explored intermediality in teaching, comics and graphic novels in teaching literature and language, (in English and Swedish) and media and ecological questions.
Researchers
- Beate Schirrmacher Associate professor
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- Nina Ernst Senior lecturer
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- Corina Löwe Associate professor, pro dean
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- Anne Holm Associate Professor
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- Kristina Danielsson Professor
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Affiliated Researchers
Camila Augusta P. de Figueiredo, PhD in Comparative Literature/Literature, Other Arts, and , editorial manager and vice-director of UFMG University Press, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Ana Munari Domingos, Professor of Literature and Media Studies, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
Ayoe Quist Henkel, Associate Professor of subject didactics, Research Center for Pedagogy and Education, VIA University College, Denmark
Érika Viviane Costa Vieira, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil
Miriam de Paiva Vieira, Adjunct Professor of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature at Department of Arts, Letters and Culture, Federal University of São João del-Rei